#pipe layers

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Black workers laying water or sewer pipes in Queens, 1920.

Photo: NYC Municipal Archives

[lazycranberrydoodles]

cole !!!

more portrait practice ^^ these are so fun

[god-was-silent]

these two are THE rivals ever in my heart of hearts. fairytale for computers and psychological horror for everyone

designs by @y2kazoo / @surfclown (hi)

[julianplum]

Starting two new paintings this week! I'm participating in a group show called Symbiosis, naturally themed around symbiotic relationships.

Top piece: Panellus stipticus (the jack-o-lantern mushroom) glows at night. While no one is quite sure why, the leading theory suggests that it attracts forest insects, who get an easy meal of mushroom and, in the process, gather up spores from the lantern's gills and spread them around.

Bottom piece: Monotropa uniflora (ghost pipes) are parasitic, heterotrophic plants—one of the very few examples of their type! Unable to produce their own nutrients, they tap into the mycorrhizal networks created by Russula and Lactarius species and siphon nutrients from the mushrooms and their tree partners (in this case, eastern white pine).

Really, really excited to start painting these! They will be gouache on this really nice hot press paper, and I'll keep y'all updated on the progress :)

[inkwingart]

Vietwardian look 3/? — this one is inspired by the Artistic Dress and Pre-Raphaelite movements, but mostly it’s an áo ngũ thân or ‘five-paneled robe’ with a smocked waist and fitted wrists. The red hairband and undershirt are taken directly from traditional Vietnamese styles (though from a mix of regions), while the shoes are a cross between two different syles of Vietnamese hài, with a more Edwardian profile.

Do not edit or remove my caption, crop, edit, or repost on any platform.

[thestarseersystem]

Can we just slot away the experiences with those with polyfragmented DID away from DID itself. Cause like. No fucking wonder I didn't realize that I had DID, it's a completely different ballpark.

Like, if you got three ANPs, and the main one has a subsystem with fragments + introjects, no shit are you not going to see a constant interruption of memory. Sure, it's kind of bumpy, but at worst it's just heavy dissociation for a couple of days.

Like. Why have people not made a keen distinction? Why has it been so ignored? I'm frustrated honestly.

Like. Yes, I've always had memory problems, but that can easily be attributed to other things if the symptoms are less severe.

It's honestly fucking frustrating that I run into people that say "tHeRe'S oNlY pOlYfRaGmEnTeD dId" without fucking explaining past the theory of structural dissociation. No theory of structural dissociation is going to HELP ME understand my experiences. Like you're just throwing out words and it's not explaining why or how it works.

It makes me unbelievably pissed. EXPLAIN. Explain that people with a higher tier of structural dissociation have a way more unstable system and that causes a greater number of alters, which lessens dissociative gaps within the fronting group, but may widen the gap between the innerworld alters and fronting alters. Explain how polyfragmented systems work compared to regular DID. Explain that the OSDD-1b label isn't actually what we think it is.

I am tired of stupid fucking idiots on the internet that only deem to quote and paraphrase, instead of doing adequate explanations of what those quoted texts mean. It's absolutely fucking infuriating.

Don't just say that I don't know what I'm talking about, if you're not going to give me adequate reason. These are my experiences, and it's so fucking easy to misconstrue if you're not being overly specific.

And there is literally no damn way to research shit first fucking hand when you need to buy the books, find specific scientific articles or see actual sources. I saw some of you getting mad that we say "DID has little research", but yet to back up your arguments. Why quote something when you barely understand it yourself?

This community needs a fucking overhaul. I am exhausted. We're all just parroting off of each other, as google is not that damn helpful.

I just want more understanding and articulation. Being a polyfragmented system is difficult all on its own, maybe we should understand that the human psyche cannot withstand intense amounts of trauma without breaking down in some form or fashion. It really is confusing that many people try to force the idea that we must face it all alone, you should know that's not how that works.

[activatebutterflyshield]

Day thirteen of No One Except @mr-orion Asked November (NoOneExOriAskNov). This one is dedicated to @thecrazyneographist and their script Chahvinik, which I have unofficially adopted for the Layered Earth, and am attempting to learn. It will be the second conscript I’ve learned, with the other being the wonderful Diabolic script by u/alegio over on Reddit.

I kinda panicked today, and made this guy and his whole religion up on the spot. Here’s Arthur Lan Glass, and his familiar Tesla, of the Æther Order of the Keyhole, a new religion of the post-apocalyptic world of Layer Epsilon.

Epsilon is the collateral damage of the supernatural shenanigans happening on surrounding layers, resulting in the Giving Way, when a bunch of concentrated magic nonsense fell from the earth and grew from the sky.

Arthur here is a victim of that magic, called Æther; he is an Angel, a person afflicted with the ability to create. He must create, or he will die.

Like many other Angels, and their destructive Demon counterparts, he joined one of many new religions to find an outlet. Now he wanders the world as a scholar and a healer, mending and fixing all that he can. Thanks to this chosen path, the Æther of the world has coalesced into a signature ‘keyhole halo’ around his head.

[alongtidesoflight]

i go weeks without any mental health issues and think i'm on top of myself and then someone throws the last straw my way and i end up spending the weekend crawling around in the dirt and tearing out the kitchen floor with nothing but my bare hands and a dull butter knife while i ignore everything and everyone around me and i wish this was a shitpost but it's not my kitchen fucks now i kinda went off

[anreill]

Flat that has received the Landlord Special paint job so many times it now coats the floors and covers the windows and sloughs off the walls in great off-white sheets like sedimentary layers of stone

[aceparagoned]

In reference to this post I made about a couple of weeks ago, I'd like to go further into depth of how Hikaru's Crux was studied. In this headcanon, please be mindful of the following content warnings: child abuse, torture in a medical setting, and the ethics surrounding human experimentation in the name of "science."

When Hikaru was born and her Crux was discovered, scientists were intrigued on how this particular human could have developed another organ in the womb when her own mother, Katsumi, didn't have one. During Katsumi's entire pregnancy, the additional organ was discovered during routine ultrasounds, but there were discussions into the ethics of testing on an unborn fetus that could lead to Katsumi possibly miscarrying. Not just that, but Tamotsu, Hikaru's father, objected to the point of practically almost getting arrested for threatening to hurt the scientists that wanted to experiment on his wife and unborn daughter.

So, they held off until Hikaru was born so as to carry out their experiments when the Crux was fully developed.

This wasn't met without a great deal of resistance from not just Katsumi, but Hikaru's father, Tamotsu. The both of them vehemently argued to not test their daughter at all, thinking that she deserved so much more than being nothing more than something to gawk at because of being born with something else that no one else, at the time, possessed. For at least five years, Hikaru was able to grow up in a happy family until she was voluntarily given up to participate in the PIPE's training program in an attempt to turn the tides of war. They only gave her up on the promise that no experiments would be carried out on her because of her Crux.

The PIPE, desperate to continue living instead of losing the war against the Gnocem, promised they did. However, promises can be broken and it's one of the PIPE's horrible secrets that they've kept under lock and key this entire time.

See, after Hikaru had been given up by her parents, things were okay for a time. She was properly cared for, treated with respect, and told that things were going to be okay. That was, until, the same scientists who were intrigued when she was still in her mother's womb arrived and brokered a deal with the PIPE: they can test on her all they wanted if it'd produced the results they were looking for and that was to be humanity's weapon in the fight against the Gnocem. The deal was agreed upon and this is where things had taken a turn for the worst for Hikaru, who still was a child at this point.

At first, the experimentation wasn't that bad. Just a few shots and blood tests, really. But when that didn't reveal anything regarding the capabilities of Hikaru's Crux, they had to get "creative" with their testing and by being "creative", they resorted to procedures where sights like these [CW: needles in image] were unfortunately common practice with Hikaru strapped to a cold, metal surgical table and pleading for them to stop hurting her and that she was sorry for whatever she did to deserve this punishment.

Sadly, her pleas fell on deaf ears because it went so much further than just injecting her with multiple drugs. They wanted to see how she'd be able to heal and how much pain she could withstand. So, they went through with not just stabbing and lacerating her, but full on maiming by shooting her through her hands and feet. Again, her cries for mercy went ignored. However, these extreme methods of testing her endurance and pain tolerance finally paid off during her training regimen that she was still expected to go through. They ultimately made her stronger, and in their eyes fortunately able to withstand much more in terms of increased training.

Yet, no one thought about how she was still just a child. During these experiments and training, they slowly whittled away the bright and happy girl that started on this because she was promised that she was gonna be a hero and save the day! How could a child resist that? The PIPE and the scientists kept on saying that this was all in the name of making her a hero, like they promised she'd be.

Was being a hero worth all this pain and misery, though? That was one of Hikaru's many thoughts while she was in her room, quietly sobbing into her pillow at night until she finally was able to sleep, having passed out from the pain and discomfort she was in. Hikaru also learned that no matter how many times she cried or apologized, they'd still carry out the experiments on her, so eventually she'd just lie there and take it, trying to not make a single noise for fear that it'd only ramp up the experiments' intensity on her.

And the way that she was rewarded for this? They simply gave her treats, which were one of her only comforts. She couldn't contact her parents to tell them what was going on and the reports that they received told them that Hikaru was being well taken care of and was happy. Nothing was wrong in their eyes, even as they kept on forgetting the most important aspect of this whole matter: Hikaru was still a child. Yet, if it produced results such as giving them little victories here and there on the war, so be it — they would continue this extreme training regimen and keep on lying to her parents that she was being treated the way that they had promised. To this day, they still don't know what sort of hell their own daughter has been through and Hikaru doesn't want to upset them by telling them the truth, either, because of how these experiments gave them the stability that they have today.

As Hikaru grew up and became more powerful (along with being broken down and molded back into what the PIPE wanted of her), the experiments eventually ceased altogether, but this gave her a lasting fear of anything medical because of the hell she was put through. As previously mentioned, Hikaru is very critical of others tending to her injuries that she sustains in fights since she'd rather be the one to patch herself up because she doesn't trust anyone else to do it. Those in the medbay only admonish her for getting hurt for the umpteenth time and don't have any sympathy for her, no matter how grievous the injury really is. So, she'll often be by herself, dressing her own wounds while trying to stifle her sounds of discomfort however possible. This behavior of hers is still prevalent to this day because of how deep seated her own fear of anything medical is concerned — all because the PIPE saw her as nothing more than a weapon instead of a human being.

As far as anyone's concerned, the PIPE is heralded as this pillar of strength and hope, but no one publicly knows just what it took to get there. It's still classified information that only those who are higher up the food chain are privy to and have sworn to never reveal to the public the atrocities they committed to attain the semblance of peace that they have today. Anyone who tries to speak up about the human rights abuses they committed is silenced, never to be seen nor heard from again.

To Watanabe and others, the PIPE is nothing more than a shining beacon of peace and prosperity in the world and nothing shall ever taint that pristine image that they've cultivated for themselves all these years.

[fratboykate]

Im mostly pained that these assholes fucked you over so bad that we didn’t get to hear the tea from DWD bc I Know you had some juicy stuff under your sleeve 😤

🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[selftrepanning]

need a better hairstyle than Nondescript Brown

[saiextrusiontechnikgroup]

SINGLE SCREW RPVC PIPE EXTRUSION MACHINERY LINES SINGLE SCREW RPVC PIPE EXTRUSION MACHINERY LINES A single screw extruder is a machine used to form a plastic product into the required shape The machine heats the plastic raw material e g PVC to its melting point

[ykmahedges]

[flash-from-the-past]

Submachine 2: the Lighthouse

[kyistell]

Since there’s no hockey for you for 10 days, could you draw a state maybe playing hockey?

So I wanted to get this done immediately, went onto Pinterest for references because while I never use them, references would be the only way I could do this, got distracted looking at hockey memes, went and bothered my father and here we are now...oops?

It's not the best but considering I really didn't have a reference pic for this exact pose, I gotta say I think I did pretty well :D